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Cultural & Literary Theory

Postcolonial Theory

by Bart Moore-Gilbert
A comprehensive yet accessible survey.
NASA/TREK

by Constance Penley
How Star Trek came to represent both scientific perfection and sexual experimentation in modern-day America.
The Imperial Archive

by Thomas Richards
How a rapid influx of information changed Britain and its culture forever.
Against the Grain

by Terry Eagleton
An excellent introduction to the range of Eagleton’s thought and his considerable body of work.
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Modern Epic

by Franco Moretti
“Cast a whole new light on traditional discussions of modernism.”—Fredric Jameson
The Book of Sodom

by Paul Hallam
“A stunning guided tour through the real and imaginary landscapes of Sodom.”—Jenny Diski
Late Imperial Culture

Edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, et al.

Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in...
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.

Women's Pictures

by Annette Kuhn

This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and...

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Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics

by Michael Bérubé

In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American campuses, spreading to the...
Object-Choice (All you need is love...)

by Klaus Theweleit
An illuminating lexicon of love in the twentieth century.
Strange Weather

by Andrew Ross
“A marvellous, sceptical history of the culture of prediction.”—Meaghan Morris

Sexuality and Class Struggle

by Reimut Reiche

This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most...

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